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For Your Consideration

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Hollywood send-up. No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called "Home for Purim," when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in "Variety" and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of a nomination has changed the actors' lives. Agents, publicists, make-up artists, local celebrity reporters, and other bit players round out the backstage ensemble. Hooray for Hollywood!

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Catherine O'Hara
Marilyn Hack
Harry Shearer
Victor Allan Miller
Parker Posey
Callie Webb

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Awards

  • 2006 - KCFCC Award - Best Supporting Actress - winner
  • 2007 - Critics Choice Award - Best Supporting Actress - nominated
  • 2007 - Critics Choice Award - Best Comedy Movie - nominated
  • 2006 - NBR Award - Best Supporting Actress - winner

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For Your Consideration: Christopher Guest's Latest Has Crazy Buzz

If you ever happen to meet Christopher Guest, the multitalented auteur behind a string of wince-inducing, documentary-style satires, there is one thing you must not do: Call his films mockumentaries. Although the actor/author/director/composer helped pioneer the genre — first as a writer and performer (the 1984 cult classic This Is Spinal Tap), and later as a director, too, (beginning with 1996's Waiting for Guffman) — Guest detests the word. "Don't get caught saying mockumentary to Chris," warns Catherine O'Hara, who has starred in four of his films, including his newest

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